Category Archives: Science

NASA proves it can re-fuel a Satellite on Orbit

NASA’S Refueling Demonstration Proves Viability Of Satellite-Servicing Technologies For many years steps have been taken to develop technology to refurbish/refuel satellites while they are in orbit. This month NASA came…

Super-Tiger Balloon Breaks Records While Collecting Data

(Source NASA) – A large NASA science balloon has broken two flight duration records while flying over Antarctica carrying an instrument that detected 50 million cosmic rays. The Super Trans-Iron…

Curosity’s MAHLI First Night Imaging Under Ultraviolet Lighting

This cool looking image of a Martian rock illuminated by ultraviolet LEDs (light emitting diodes) is part of the first set of nighttime images taken by the Mars Hand Lens…

Physicists Get Closer Than Ever to finding the Higgs boson

Scientists in America have found strong hints that the rumored Higgs boson particle is real. “This is a very exciting week — it may be the most exciting week in…

New NASA Game Lets Players Build and Launch a Virtual Rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With NASA’s Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to launch a spacecraft….

NASA’S Pleiades Supercomputer Gets A Little More Oomph

WASHINGTON — NASA’s flagship Pleiades supercomputer just received a boost to help keep pace with the intensive number-crunching requirements of scientists and engineers working on some of the agency’s most…

Speed of light not exceeded after all by CERN…sigh…

OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso About six months ago CERN reported that they had exceeded the speed of light in an…

NASA Transfers Shuttle Discovery to National Air and Space Museum

Focuses on Bold New Era of Space Exploration WASHINGTON — NASA transferred space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum during a ceremony Thursday, April 19, at…